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Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Advances in Database Systems, 6
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing a
steady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest,
theory development, and new applications in the last decade or so.
GIS is an inter-disciplinary field that brings together many
diverse areas such as computer science, geography, cartography,
engineering, and urban planning. Database Issues in Geographic
Information Systems approaches several important topics in GIS from
a database perspective. Database management has a central role to
play in most computer-based information systems, and is expected to
have an equally important role to play in managing information in
GIS as well. Existing database technology, however, focuses on the
alphanumeric data that are required in business applications. GIS,
like many other application areas, requires the ability to handle
spatial as well as alphanumeric data. This requires new innovations
in data management, which is the central theme of this monograph.
The monograph begins with an overview of different application
areas and their data and functional requirements. Next it addresses
the following topics in the context of GIS: representation and
manipulation of spatial data, data modeling, indexing, and query
processing. Future research directions are outlined in each of the
above topics. The last chapter discusses issues that are emerging
as important areas of technological innovations in GIS. Database
Issues in Geographic Information Systems is suitable as a secondary
text for a graduate level course on Geographic Information Systems,
Database Systems or Cartography, and as a reference for researchers
and practitioners in industry.
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